Buzz-out. Greetings from Cyber Purgatory
Hi to friends, and regular readers! (We keep getting a steady, if teeny, number of hits throughout this blacked-out period, so I figure an update's in order, because even though I cuss readily, my cuss ratio is situational, and being a cusser doesn't mean I forget my manners.)
To state the obvious, we've been out of commission. Before we go on, a very very brief update on the gangs: there's been more abandonments, sterilisations, a death, and some illnesses... this is not a great month for the moggies. And as you will see from the following, neither is it for us minions.
We've been languishing because the main blogprint machine aka my home pc is suffering terrrrrrrrrribly, and I'm in a dilemma. Let me be the bitchin ingrate for a moment: after 3 years of placid, resigned slogging, the damn thing had to start zonking out right AFTER the pc expo ended last last weekend. Imagine choosing to expire after all the nice deals are expired! I suspect, highly so, the thing's been planning this custer's last stand just to spike me.
Actually, the dying pc was act 2 of this blog's ongoing cylence. Act 1 is my entire fault: we've been, or rather I've been looking for an alternative home for our cyberanting. The reason? Simple, I'm getting mightily disturbed at the lack of categories in blogspot, and the workarounds are just too much pain to do.
So what could I do but migrate this blog to another blog service that does provide genuine categorisation function, and in the process, reformat and otherwise ensure the entries look ok?
And what's a blog moving house without a few Jupiter-sized spanners wrenching up the works? I've endeavoured to make it as painful on the self as possible by deciding to split purrsNswipes into 3 in its new home:
Tipped Ear Clan: Cats in Singapore: the Homeless, the Homeseeking, and the Homeslackers of the 2 kitty mojo robbing siblings who serve the Clan
- The gangs, home seekers, mojo stealing insights, slacker cameos, all's here... some of the links' still flaky though.
Casefile: Animal Cruelty in Singapore: Singapore Animal Cruelty Cases: a disturbing reflection of a nation’s morality, and grace deficiency
- For easy ref, all the cruelty stuff's going to parked here. This is really where the categorising's gonna help a ton. But of course, work's not started at all.
rain in calsifer’s firepit: Cat minion. Enviro, non-human advocate. ‘Prentice herbivore. Cynical eye on Singapore and the world. And yeah, junky!
- The rest of it, the non-tipped ear clan specific stuff, are deposited here. The links need some serious work, though not as great an effort as the casefiles
Yeah, I'm trading one pain for another set... anal retentiveness is my personal sadist joy after all.
See you over at the new hidey holes, just don't expect house-warming party favours anytime soon - and excuse the messes, everything's still WIP after all.
TNRM: Grab that mojo!
Simple is as simple does, and what could easier to understand than this: Take away cat mating = cat boom stop = piggy bank safe from being broken by cat food bill (protection against other causes not covered).
Here it is in pictorial form, courtesy of Dawn:
Scenario A
Scenario B
Highly recommended companion piece:
Misty, the One in a Million Cat by Debbie Lewis(How to tell human kids about Kitty's "thang" with the birds and the bees business?)
So what are you waiting for?
Grab that mojo!
- Go to
Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to
SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to
HDB bans cats - government body chronically misconceived
- Go to
Singapore's Love-Hate Relationship with Trap-Neuter-Release Management
- Check out the purrsNswipes
Adoption Guidebook
- Meet our
homeseekers
- Go to
Pawprints: TLC for cat minon requisite education
- Go to
SOS and see how you help some Singapore animals in need
The Body Shop has L'Oreal-ed. Where do we go from here?
The Body Shop, in the general public's eye, has represented a commitment to promoting community trade, non-animal testing and environmental friendliness.
The Body Shop was, in short, a godsend to women who were aware and sickened by the horrors of animal testing in the beauty trade, and didn't want the guilt of needless deaths on their vanity. In short, they did not want to have blood in their lipsticks or eyeshadow anymore.
But is it, really? Since I started hearing about stuff behind the company's modus operandi (THE BODY SHOP FILE: Beyond "Shattered Image"), I've been looking around for alternatives.
But I've been half-hearted in my replacement campaign, because Body Shop products were kind to both my pockets and my conscience. They work well for me too, and besides, rumours were easy to start, and you can't believe everything you hear... or so I kept telling myself. This is despite the extensive use of SLS - Sodium Lauryl Sulphate, a common but harmful foaming agent in what are promoted as pesonal care products made with natural ingredient (more).
But something else happened, and now I'm even more determined to get through with my replacement regime. On Mar 17, this year, the Body Shop agreed to a L'Oreal takeover!
Now any self-respecting anti-animal testing girl will tell you, L'Oreal is the P&G of the cosmetics world. Worse, L'Oreal is 26% owned by Nestlé.
You do the money-trail following yourself.
For further entertainment, here's some online stuff precipitated by the takoever announcement:
For more issues that consumers ought to be aware of, check out
Is that blood in your lipstick?
- Go to
Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to
SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to
HDB bans cats - government body chronically misconceived
- Go to
Singapore's Love-Hate Relationship with Trap-Neuter-Release Management
- Check out the purrsNswipes
Adoption Guidebook
- Meet our
homeseekers
- Go to
Pawprints: TLC for cat minon requisite education
- Go to
SOS and see how you help some Singapore animals in need
Homeseeker: Cassie
[photo pending]
Cassie is a slender 6-8 month old female black and white kitten, with a perfect tail. She is gentle and quiet, but very affectionate.
Cassie has been sterilised-she turned up with a tipped ear. Her vaccination and litter-box training status unknown.
If you or anyone you know is interested to take away Cassie's bewilderment, and give this affectionate young girl a home, please write to sephycat at gmail dot com.
Her Story
Cassie has been in the carpark of the Street Gangs' Area 1 since yesterday, May 31.
A friend found her, and so we do not know much about this lovely young cat.
Now an honorary member of the Gangs (we hope to get her off the streets and into a home soon), Cassie is getting used to life there. But with her very clean and healthy physical condition, her fearlessness around humans, and the way she seem to be waiting for someone or something, it is obvious that she's very likely a newly abandoned pet.
Hungry baby
Seeking solace
Wondering which way is home?
Hoping for an answer
- Meet our homeseekers
- Check out the purrsNswipes Adoption Guidebook
- Go to Pawprints: TLC for cat minon requisite education
- Go to Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to HDB bans cats - government body chronically misconceived
- Go to Singapore's Love-Hate Relationship with Trap-Neuter-Release Management
- Go to SOS and see how you help some Singapore animals in need
